Deleting Old ShortCut during Upgrade

sarfu

Hi all,We have our application with the customer which is a basic msi setup.exe

Now there is a need to change the Shortcut structure from StartMenu->PhoneApplications to StartMenu->ProgramsMenu->PhoneApplications

Having the new shortcut is not a problem but how to remove the previously installed shortcuts which are installed by previous version?

I went through the documentation. There was reference to RemoveFiles table with filekey, component, ... and InstallMode column. During Upgradation with REINSTALLMODE=vamus REINSTALL=ALL command i changed the InstallMode column value form "2" to "1" i.e. to say this file should be removed during installation. (as value "2" indicates to be removed during Un-installation, "1" means remove during installation( in my case upgradation))

but for me the upgradation din't removed the shorcuts instead it placed the new shortcuts along with the older shortcuts. I can think of some vb script to remove it with CA but i dont want to use any scripts for removal of shortcuts, rather to be done in proper manner (may be with RemoveFiles table or any installer Api).

Can some body please tell me is there a way to remove a shorcut which is previously installed by a previous version, when installting a higher version of the same product? ( Upgrade from Lower to Higher version without un-installation)Thanks in advanceSarfu

antyagi

sarfu

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Posted 03 May 2007 - 14:45

Thanks for your kind replysorry to say even if i select true for "reevaluate" condition for the component, the shortcut is not being removed.

Since i am removing the older shortcut i have removed the older shortcut from component and put the new shortcut. Once i remove the older shortcut folder entries, corresponding entries in the removefiles tables will also be removed. Hence i again manually entered the older keyfilename and other details in the removefiles table as it was earlier, with InstallMode=1, but still its not removing the older shortcut when i upgrade the application.

I guess i am missing some entry in the table or missing some condition. Please let me know what might be the reason that the upgrade is not removing the older shortcuts.

Stefan Krueger

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Posted 03 May 2007 - 16:44

Do you specify the path and file name to the .lnk file in your RemoveFile table entry?

Is existing the shortcut in Start menu displayed above or below the horizontal rule or line (or whatever it may be called)? The shortcuts below this separator is a list of recently used shortcuts, so there are no .lnk files but I think some MRU registry entry.

For shortcuts above the separator where often programs like Internet Explorer, Outlook and the like are placed) I'm not sure if they are real shortcuts or also just registry entries, and in which folder they are stored.

So the question is: how did you install the old shortcut in the first place?